Keeping your house clean when training a new puppy

Getting a new puppy is exciting for the whole family; however, it doesn't take long for the reality to set in that the new member of the family needs to be housetrained. While you can rely on your professional cleaning company to help keep your home fresh and clean as you train your puppy, there are things that you can also do at home, day to day. Puppies will have accidents in the house. It's inevitable. But by following some simple guidelines, you can minimize soiling accidents.
As you begin to housetrain, keep on hand a few supplies that will make both cleaning and training easier: training pads, a pet odor reducing enzymatic cleaner, a baby gate, small treats and a crate if you decide to crate train.
Make room for your puppy - If you are not crate training, set up a room for your puppy. This will help you minimize accidents that will require cleaning. This could be a small bathroom, laundry room or storage room--any room without a carpet. A baby gate will help keep puppy confined to the area, without having to close the door. You don't want to have your new puppy feeling secluded at a time when you are forming a bond together. Whenever you go out, the puppy should be kept in the crate or put in their special room.
Use training pads - It's not uncommon for puppies to need to pee every half hour. Trying to get your puppy outside, frequently, to a designated spot is important. Choose a spot and train your puppy to go to that spot. Use treats as rewards when puppy does his or her business in the place you have shown. You can purchase training pads, training pad trays and even washable training pads at many pet stores. When training your puppy to use their training pad, it often works to stand on the pad with your puppy.
Never scold your puppy - If an accident does happen on your carpet, have an odor reducing enzymatic cleaner readily available. Urine has ammonia in it, so without a cleaner that can remove or reduce enzymes, the soiled area could become an attractive potty spot for your puppy. Never use household cleaners to clean a soiled spot. Not only do many have strong odors, but unless they are specifically an enzyme cleaner, they won't effectively clean and eliminate the odor. When accidents do happen, pick up your puppy and remove him or her to the training pad or taken them outside to their pee spot.
The Humane Society of the United States http://www.humanesociety.org/, has some great tips for housetraining your new puppy. For details, visit http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/dogs/tips/housetraining_puppies.html?referrer=https://www.google.ca/.
You will be the best judge in terms of how many weeks you need to maintain this routine before giving your puppy more freedom. If puppy regresses once you have given more freedom, go back to your training steps.
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